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DECLARE CHOPS ARE VERY CLEAN DRY CONDITIONS SHOW GREAT EST EFFECT IN NOR~HERN ORDER. REPORT BY FRANK PARKER Tobacco is Suffering Heavily Frcm Dry Weather; Stands Are Irregular. Raleigh Crops In North Carolina aie “re markably clean’ as a result of exces sive drought and frequent cultivation, according to the semi-monthly crop re port of Frank Parker, Agricultural Statistician of the Department of Ag riculture. The dry conditions are showing most effect along the north ern border, the report states. “Truck crops and herbaceous plants are suffering," the report continued. “Melons are shedding and not produc ing the size they should. Stands of some crops are irregular due to weather conditions. “Corn is late, small, and in the ex cessively dry areas, is stunted. Many sections showed curled blades. Crop is clean and in the southern half of the state, looking very tine. “The cotton crop is generally good, wonderfully rapid growth having tak en place, plants are branching and squares forming well. Stands are fairly good in the main belt. The weevil effects have been noticed in only a few border counties. Root lice Is bothering some. “Tobacco is suffering heavily from the dry weather. Stands are irregu lar, especially on stiff soils. The growth Is stocky and leaves close to gether. Good color in the southern half of the state, but yellowish, small, and sickly in the main, or old belt area where the acreage is slightly re duced. "The wheat crop is the best for several years. Spotted areas show undeveloped grain but mostly it is good. The harvesting season was favorable for saving the grain. Sev eral places expect to thresh directly from the field when cut. The grain t is remarkably well cured and dry. "Apples are short and seriously affected by insects, as are peaches where not heavily sprayed. “Peaches in the Sand Hill area will probably yield better than was ex pected imless the dry weather con tinues. Orchards are in nice condi tion. “Truck is in poor condition, espe cially in the Northern Coastal Belt, where rain is greatly needed. Melons over the whole area are suffering se verely from dry weather. “Although scarce, farm labor is handicapping the farm work more by its independent nature than by short age. This state suffered least by its migration northward. “Considerable dissatisfaction is ex isting with the Cooperative Market ing due to the members being dis satisfied with payments. The well or ganized tobacco warehousemen are not displeased at this. Most people believe that the idea of the organiza tion is good and want it to succeed. “A distince increase in the amount and grade of fertilizers used this year is reported from all parts of the state. Some losses by leaching was reported in early May, and that there is not enough moisture to make the plant food available, it is reported.” Two Thousand Given Employment. Positions were obtained during the month of June by the employment bureau o fthe Department of Labor and Printing for 2,094 men and 3S6 women, according to the monthly re port of the bureau issued here. Of the larger centers Charlotte led the list with 637 placed In positions of remuneration, Wilmington coming second with 592 placements. Following is the sumary of the work for the month issued by the bureau Charlotte: Skilled, 105; unskilled 464; domestic, 15; industrial, 4; cleri cal. 49; total, 637. Wilmington. Skilled, 96; unskilled 433; domestic, 29; industrial, 9: cleri c.al, 25; total. 592. Asheville; Skilled. 21: unskilled 295; domestic, 62; industrial, 0; cleri cal, 6; total. 384. Winston-Salem: Skilled, 43; im skilled, 179; domestic, 64; industrial 13; clerical, 40; total, 339. Raleigh: Skilled, 60; unskilled, S5 domestic, 43; industrial, 0; clerical 38; total. 226. New Bern: Skilled. 29; unskilled 79; domestic, 47; industrial, 0: cler leal, 0; total, 115. Ship Commission to Meet July 18. The ship and water transportation commission of the state, it was an nounced here, has adjourned its ses sions until July 18 and 19. The com mission met here 'to consider briefs and arguments presented on behalf of ports desiring improved facilities and recognition as State ports. The meeting which begins July 18, it was said, will be for the purpose of considering other petitions and briefs which may be presented by the Cotton Crop is Most Promising. “The cotton crop of North Caro lina is unusually promising consider ing the planting seasons and is the largest in its history," according to a statement issued here by Frank Par ker, statistician of the co-operative reporting service of the United States i and North Carolina departments of agriculture. The report is based on information recived from 26 counties of the state. “With the acreage at 103 per cent,** says the report, “North Carolina shows the least increase of any state. The average for the cotton belt is 12 per cent increase. It is reported that the increase would have been more had the April report not been given publicity. That report showed the ! same acreage per cent according to the planting intentions of several thousand cotton farmers. It is fur ther recognized that it was the specu lator who suffered most by that ‘in tentions’ report, which indicated prospective planting. “The present condition of SO per cent of a normal or full crop pros pect for 256 pounds per acre, if ap plied to the 1,703.460 acres, means that the crop might be over 910,000 bales if the state conditions remain favorable. The boll weevil and ad verse weather conditions must be reckoned with before early frost gets its share. These figures are based on conditions now and do not in clude any but favorable influences to follow. The last crop made 350 pounds per acre and 351,000 bales. “There are estimated to have been planted in the United States the greatest acreage of any year, 3S.237. 000 acres with a prospective yield of 11 412.000 halos or 17 per cent in crease over the 1922 production. The present condition prospects are 1.3 p< r cent below last year's report and six per cent below the 10 year aver age. “The weather conditions in North Carolina have been unusually favor able for cotton during June. The re cent rains have helped to relieve the drought that might soon have be come serious, even on cotton. Tlio boll weevil has not become notice ably bad but its presence and activi ties are now claiming the attention of the southren cotton counties of the satte. Weevil Declared Not Poisonous. Inquiries received by the state board of health from widely separat ed sections of the state indicate a fear of the boll weevil that is entirely un founded. The state board of health is advised that this pest of the cotton plant is without danger other than the damage which it does to one of the state’s leading farm products. The boll weevil is not poisonous. It does not infest fruits or berries, nor any of the garden vegetables, such as corn, beans, cabbage, lettuce, okra, tomatoes, or . the like. The only food that satisfies the appetite of this insect is the cotton boll, and it eats this preferably when young and tender, when the squares are just forming. Popular superstition has enlarged the field of activity of this insect which is having a revolution in the agricultural habits of the entire south. In some sections the weevil is reported in the blackberries. From another comes the report of having found it in the okra. A far eastern county attributed a serious illness to the weevil having been cooked along with some sanp beans. A Piedmont county thought it was infesting the cabbage. In all instances a consum ing fear seems to have taken posses sion of some of the people lest the boll weevil take their lives. In answering such inquiries the I state board of health has endeavor I ed to reassure those unduly fearful with the definite statement that there is nothing to fear from the boll weev il except the partial destruction of the cotton crop. The insect is not poisonous and infests only the cotton plant. 1__ N. C. Leading in Building. For the first time since March, 1922, the number, of permits issued for new work in twenty-four of the leading cities of the Fifth district was lower in May than the number issued dur ing the corresponding month of the previous year, hut several North Carolina cities were among those fig uring in increases of newwork, ac cording to a study of the Monthly Review of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank just made public here. May. 1922. permits totaled 2.272 In I comparison with 2,475 issued in May, 1922. In the estimated cost of the work also. May of this year dropped | below May of last ye»r .the totals be ing $11.443,583 and $12,548,712 re spectively. it. is stated. The combin ! eri valuation for both new work and alterations or repairs totaled $13,461, S52 in May, 1923, in comparison with ! $14,451,569 in May, 1922, a decrease during the current month of 6.8 per cent, according to the Review. Mail Checks to Growers. Checks aggregating more than two million dollars went out to the thirty odd thousand members of the North j Carolina Cotton Growers’ Cooperative Association, one day from the Raleigh ! headquarters. General Manager U. B. Blalock announced. These checks represent the fourth distribution made to members, bring ing the total advances up to 22 cents a pound, basis middling, and making a grand total of fifteen million dollars that has been paid out on the 135,00$ bales of cotton. GOVERNORS 10 VISIT HAMLET WILL BE GUEST OF SAND HILL PEACH SHOW LAST OF MONTH. TO BE BEST PEACH SHOW YET Will Be Displayed to the Public in Large Tobacco Warehouse Near ing Completion. Hamlet.—Extensive plans are under way here, it was announced, for the best peach show this section has yet put on, the opening date having been set for July 2G. Governor Thomas G. McLeod of South Carolina and Gover nor Cameron Morrison of North Caro lina will open the show here on that date, it has been announced by La Coste Evans, director, who has been engaged primarily for the purpose- of making tjiis third annual display of the products of this section better than either of its predecessors. The presence of Governor McLeod of the South state will add interest to the show for South Carolinians for in recent years the eastern section of that state has been following in the footsteps of the STtndhill section of North Carolina. Hundreds of acres are under cultivation in South Caro lina's upper sandhill section and the peach industry there has developed tre mendously in the past three or four years. This season's crop will be displayed to the public in a large tobacco ware house now nearing completion. Ten thousand feet of floor space wlil be de voted to the sandhill product. The last two shows have been staged in tents. The warehouse will allow of a better arrangement of the exhibits and a consequently larger exhibition than heretofore. In order to relieve the peach grow ers of the burden of conveying their exhibits' to the show at the season when because of the ripening crop they are exceedingTy busy, it has been arranged by the management of the show for trucks to call for the various exhibits and convey them to Hamlet. In this manner it is hoped to obtain a larger number of- exhibits than in past years. The first peach show held here two years ago advertised extensively; to those from other st*tes one of North Carolina's newest industries. This season’s show is expected to spread even further the fame of the peach grown in the sandhill section of the Tar Heel State. Adopts Prison Plans of Governor. Rocky Mount.—Governor Morrison’s recommendations for prison reform have been adopted by the Nash county board of commissioners in session at Nashville with the exception of dis continuing use of tjje whip in prison camps of the county. "We have cautioned the guards against use of the whip,” one of the members of the board stated, “but we did not abolish this form of punish ment altogether. We. believe that it should be held over the prisoners as they might be prone to lay down and refuse to work if they knew absolutely that there was no whipping coming to them. We believe that the whip should be held over them as a threat just as a father holds the switch over his children to make them behave.” Reilgious Department Grows. Durham.—With a prospective en rollment of 650 students in the depart ment of religious education at Trinity College for the year 1023-24, indica j tions are that North Carolina's leading ! denominational college will again ex perience a successful year’s work in the training of young men and women for Christian citizenship and in defi nite lines of life-service work. Each year has witnessed a steady growth in the religious education and Bible departments of the Methodist institution. During the college year just closed there was an' enrollment of 525 students taking up the study ot the Bible or other specific religious ‘-'■aining courses. Stockholders Demanding Probe. Goldsboro. — Approximately 2,00(1 stockholders are said to be demanding a sweeping investigation into the af fairs of the defunct Seminole Phos phate Company, a $2,000,000 fertilizer concern, with plants at Goldsboro and Dunn, and phosphate mines in Florida which failed recently with liabilities so far in excess of assets that a divi dend to creditors of as little as 10 per cent is considered doubtful. Ancient Piano Fund. 1 Statesville.—An ancient piano, pos | sibly the oldest in America, was inci dentally discove.ed in Statesville re ! cently. The discovery was made in the basement of a negro’s house by a local relic hunter who was looking for j an antiquated specimen of a familiar brand of pianos. The instrument in question was identified by Charles W. Hyan as be ing the piano which his great grand father, Solomon Hyams, brought to this country from Prussia in the yeai 1744. ROTHS HEAR ADDRESSES Architecture and; Lumber Discussed and Report of International Con vention Heard. Gastonia.—A report on the ini or national convention held recently in St. Louis, by Joe Separk, the club's representative, and shop talks by Hugh White on architecture and by Elmer Spencer on lumber were the features of the luncheon of the Gas tonia Rotary club held at the Gas tonia Country club. Jim Henderlite presided over the business session and the program was in charge of hid ward Switzer. Hugh White read an interesting paper on the origin, development and prevention of the various leading styles of architecture from the time of the construction of the pyramids up to the present day. touching, of course, only the high spots along the way. Elmer spencer gave some in teresting facts about lumber with ! especial reference to Southern yel low pine. He gave a numerous inter esting comparative figures on the price of lumber covering a period of years and showing that lumber is now high. Joe Separk's report on the Inter- ; national Rotary convention at St. I.otiis was of unusual interest. There were 10.000 Rotarians present from nearly all of the 27 counties now covered by Rotary. College Faculty Complete. Greensboro.—The faculty for North Carolina College for women is com plete for the coming college year, an nouncement being made of its make up by the acting president. Dr W. C. Jackson, who is also vice-president of the college. Twenty-two new teachers will take part in the instruction given the students, while six of the faculty are on leave of absence. Dr. Jackson continues as acting president until such time as Dr. J. I. Foust, president, who has granted a leave of absence, because of illness, last spring by the board of trustees, becomes well enough to resume his duties. Bridge Built in Halifax County. I Scotland Neck.- The County High- j way hrige force has completed a .12 i foot bridge across the run at Shield's Commissionary, which is elevated about five feet above norma) water level. This is the 16th bridge which has been completed in this section of the county, and work is nearing com pletion on the bridges at Smith’s Hill run. There are about eleven more in the territory around Scotland Neck to he rebuilt before work in this section is completed. This work is in charge of W. C. Walton and is being done entirely by county work forces. There are about 197 bridges in the county over 12 feet long and all of them have been or will he re built of standard Halifax county construction. Falls in Dipping Vat. Ahoskie—Cattle dipping vats in Hertford county have come into use for many other purposes during the three weeks they have been in opera tion. The latest use to which they were put was the dipping of one of the local federal inspectors, “Bill” Brewer, who has charge of the twelve vats in this vicinity, took his first dip in the brine. He was wrestling with an unruly member of a cow herd when he tumbled into the narrow vat, and got a taste of what he had been giving the cattle. Summer School Making Progress. Asheville.—The Asheville summer school opened with an enrollment of about 15 hundred teachers from all parts of our country,' extending from Alaska to Cuba, and from the Atlan tic to the Pacific. A North Carolina Teachers club numbering 900 members has been organized with Miss Sara S. A’exan der, of Charlotte, as president; Miss Kate Neal, secretary, and Miss Mary Kestler, treasurer. To Build Homes For Teachers. Aberdeen.—The Aberdeen School Board has chosen James B. Lynch, of T,'ilmington. as architect to get up plans and specifications for the new teacherage. The board decided to build the teacherage o' brick instead of wood, feeling that in the long run it would be economy, since it would mean cheaper insurance, less liability to be burned and superior in beauty of school architecture. A colored teacherage has just been completed, five erection of which was financed by the Rosenwald fund, con tributions from the colored patrons of Aberdeen, contributions from the local white school board and from the county board of education. The edu cational slogan of Aberdeen is “Watch us move upward and on ward.” Storm Causes Damage to Pitt Crops. Greenville.—As the result of a de vastating wind and hall storm passing through Pitt county, several thousand dollars damage was done in various sections In one community .about five n.iles from Greenville on the north side of Tar River, damage of property.thirty and forty thousand dollars was done within a radius of about two miles. There were about one hundred acres of tobacco literally destroyed by hall and wind and probably a similar num ber of acres of cotton and corn. <SX*M> House-Building Projects By REV. H. OSTROM, D. D. Extension Department, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. TEXT—Ye run every man to hie own house.—Haggai 1:9. That the order of house-bulldlno needs regulation is evident from the history of the Jewish people. When, with royal permission from Cyrus, they re turned to their homeland, build i) g formed the larger part of their immediate enterprise. God’s house (the tem ple) stood in ruins. Hut in stead of turning their united la bors to tills, eacli one budded busily on his own dwelling. The temple was the one building that represented to them and to the peo ples about them, even to their bitter est enemies, God, the living God. He was their God. He lind protected them and brought them back home. But His house they subordinated to their own—“they ran e ery man to his own house." Substitutes. Did they build? Yes, but they built substitutes. They did not put first things first. Tile temple stood in ruins; yet with meticulous care they fashioned even the ceilings of their own houses. With us today, it may be that we crowd Christ out by sub stituting the better for the best. Like those ancient people, we could readily present the plea that we do not build brothels or saloons; we build houses, a task made attractive by domestic fondness and interest. The enterprise Is humanitarian, surely? But the claim, “God first,” cannot be hidden behind this. We cannot deny that we are re jecting it. When we so build houses that we must refuse to recognize God, the effort becomes idolatrous. And fine tnste and skill in the design of an idol cannot possibly make it less a thing of idolatry. Self-Protection. Self-protection wns pleaded by this disobedient people to Justify their con duct. A man among them was deter mined to huild his own house even if there were no temple. It is on the basis of self-protection that men argue today for objectionable customs apd pleasures in the home that crowd out family prayers and such customs as show reverence for God’s name and regard for His protection. Must not this way of living be allowed in the in terest of the Opinions Of business as sociates or of societr- friends? Really, God through Haggal is proceeding against the godless home. And that spells God’s protection for those who will heed duty, and not advance the excuse of self-protection. Fashion. From the statement "Every man ran to his own house,” it would appear that It was “all the style” to do so. When the devil cannot get a man to count God out by direct personal de cision, he may succeed by indirect ap peal to him through his social nature. Thougli the man would refuse to alone do it, he may “go with the multitude to do evil.” Men cannot afford to for get, however, that “the fashion of this world passeth away.” What right have you or I to adopt “the style” until it has first been examined as to whether it pleases God? How eager they were! They must push the house-building project. No tice, “ye run” ! There was zeal! In dustry ! Thrift! Prosperity? No, we cannot say it. They substituted “the zeal of my house” for “the zeal of thy house.” How hard people will work for such poor wages! As they them selves say, “They will work them selves to—death.” Is it not all in a good cause?” they ask. Halt soul, and answer, “Whose cause?” Never, never can we do enough to save us. What Jesus Christ did on the cross must be accepted and then the really good cause begins. Then we can speed the industry of home building. When we have started with the temple we can proceed with the house. Consecration. Better live in a tent of coarse weav ing where God is reverenced, than live In a house as artistic ns it is costly where God’s claim is neglected. If you really have God but live in a hut you can say: “Yet possessing all things.” You may live in a prison dungeon, and lo, you yourself may be come a temple of the Holy Spirit. There is a house “which is from heaven.” A Prayer. Dear Master, we will follow Thee, but we need Thy grace to hold us from falling by the way. Let us plant our feet where Thou hast marked the way, O our Good Shepherd, for so we shall not wander. Only let us hear Thee call our names and then we can not miss the path. Amen.—The Church Helper. The Only Savior. The Person of Christ will ever re main an unsolved mystery to thought, but He will ever be the only Savior of humanity, and He will still satisfy all who seek God in humility. The believer must be content with seeing in a glass darkly until the Savior Is seen face to face.—The Churtfh of Ire land Gazette. KEELER,AT 80, GOES TO WORK After fourteen years of enforced dleness because of ill health, J. H. Xeeler, widely-known Maryland citi len, has gained forty pounds at the ige of eighty years and gone back to a-ork every day. Mr. Keeler, who re iides at 3706 Thirty-Second St., Mt. Ranier, Md., gives entire credit for ils extraordinary rehabilitation to Tan lac. “My stomach was in such terrible condition I could hardly digest a thing,” says Mr. Keeler. “It would swell to nearly twice its normal size and I would have frightful pains through my stomach and back. 1 felt so weak, dizzy and miserable work was out of the question. In fact, my friends gave me up on three or four occasions. “Five months ago 1 began taking Tanlac and improved from the very first bottle. I now eat anything on the table, have gained forty pounds, and am back at work every day. Actually, I feel like a boy again. It would be ungrateful of me not to praise Tan lac." Tanlac is for sale by all good drug gists.. Accept no substitute. Over 37 million bottles sold. Tanlac Vegetable Fills are Nature’s own remedy for constipation. For sale everywhere.—Advertisement. / His Size. “Sir, I am able to read between the lines, and—” “All, yes,” impolitely interrupted ,T Fuller Gloom. “You are one of those, persons who understand nothing but the blank spaces?”—Kansas City Star. Could See Big Change in Baby _From the First “I could see a big change for the better In baby right from the first when I began giving him Teethina; he grew quieter, Ills stomach pains left off and now he is as fat and healthy a child as you please,” writes Mrs. Maude Neighbors, 1638 W. 4th St., Texarkana, Texas. When baby is restless and fretful from teething or a disordered stom ach nothing will bring such quick re lief as Teethina'. It contains nothing that can harm the most delicate child, but soothes and allays distress iiwl dent to teething and colicky condi tions. 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